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and democrats who have obstructed anti-slavery for civil rights bill. if not for the republican from illinois rallying 27 republicans to overcome a filibuster of the 1964 civil rights bill from al gore sr. and robert byrd who was a klansman we would not have that bill today. if democrats did not overturn an 1875 would have a proud history to stand up for race relations new should be on the tip of our town. they have not heard it. to get a public-school education where america is the big bad country but yet to never looked at it as a beacon of freedom. no country has done more than the history of the plan it. don't be afraid then talk to your peers. [applause] >> and the chairmen of my high-school in ohio. we have seen how hollywood has an immense presence over society although you reveal mana iras so hypocritical. how do we get to influence over immediate to promote to individual freedoms that hollywood has over the media and a society today? >> a great question. ronald reagan did not have fox news alert conservative talk radio or twitter. we have the a
and democrats who have obstructed anti-slavery for civil rights bill. if not for the republican from illinois rallying 27 republicans to overcome a filibuster of the 1964 civil rights bill from al gore sr. and robert byrd who was a klansman we would not have that bill today. if democrats did not overturn an 1875 would have a proud history to stand up for race relations new should be on the tip of our town. they have not heard it. to get a public-school education where america is the big bad...
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rights bill being filibustered by al gore's senior and robert clansmen, we want to have the civil rights bill come in 1864. if democrats are returned in 1965 affably may not have needed the act. we had a proud history standing out and we should be on the tip of the tongue spit it out to their peers because they have not heard. getting some public school education while conveniently leave out all the facts for america look bad as the big bad country around the world and never looked that has america been some beacon of freedom. yes, toshio said? been no country has done more for civil rights and freedom in the history of the planet. don't be afraid to use the information you get here and talk to your peers. how do we overcome it? go ahead and talk to them. [applause] >> good afternoon, sir. john nietzsche cobey, chairman of the high school in ohio. my question for you is for your presentation was seen how hollywood has an immense influence over society here in america. although you revealed through your presentation of many celebrities are hypocritical and even ticketed, my question is ho
rights bill being filibustered by al gore's senior and robert clansmen, we want to have the civil rights bill come in 1864. if democrats are returned in 1965 affably may not have needed the act. we had a proud history standing out and we should be on the tip of the tongue spit it out to their peers because they have not heard. getting some public school education while conveniently leave out all the facts for america look bad as the big bad country around the world and never looked that has...
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is that right? and if it's not right, what is right? and who was involved in that process? rdf can involve come afghan police, civil society. give us a little insight into how one of those investigations would take place. >> the ricin investigation. it is a jointly led investigation with afghans. it is taken extremely seriously to get to the truth of this. and of course on some occasions it is difficult to do that because the nature of the incident. this is strictly delivered and it is recorded as such. >> the joint investigation team beloved by the rac southwestern afghanistan for provincial government cited the. members of the afghan security forces and members of the district government as well. so it goes on over a period of time. there'd be an initial visit to know, but also other areas in order to collect other pieces of lebanon. they would then go back to the community of the investigation to place. >> and of course commit these things are straightforward. there are allegations on many occasions we have found the civilian casualties as a result of insurgent act digni
is that right? and if it's not right, what is right? and who was involved in that process? rdf can involve come afghan police, civil society. give us a little insight into how one of those investigations would take place. >> the ricin investigation. it is a jointly led investigation with afghans. it is taken extremely seriously to get to the truth of this. and of course on some occasions it is difficult to do that because the nature of the incident. this is strictly delivered and it is...
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to civil rights, the 1957 act. he also aggregated a great deal of power. he found sticks and carrots that nobody knew existed. he made the senate work through the full force of his will. but he was abusive to people. he basically pressured people in a way they got tired of. and he would withhold office space. he would withhold committee assignments. he'd pup issue people he didn't like, and by the time he left to be vice president, he had pretty much worn out his welcome. mansfield was the polar opposite of lbj. an, asian scholar. he was low-key, intellectual, and mansfield believed that all the senators so play a role. they were all adults. the democrats, the republicans, the senior members, the younger members, and he built the senate based on trust and respect, and what you see happening throughout the mansfield period is things get accomplished because of the mutual trust and respect that was nurtured by mapsfield. he wasn't the only one but was instrumental in nurturing it. >> you mak the case that mans feel w
to civil rights, the 1957 act. he also aggregated a great deal of power. he found sticks and carrots that nobody knew existed. he made the senate work through the full force of his will. but he was abusive to people. he basically pressured people in a way they got tired of. and he would withhold office space. he would withhold committee assignments. he'd pup issue people he didn't like, and by the time he left to be vice president, he had pretty much worn out his welcome. mansfield was the...
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we passed the civil rights law to prevent that. the second city right not to have your vote canceled up by someone who is an illegal alien, and died, voting twice, or someone who does not even exist. that to file its your sole rights. we can do both. now, an obstacle to this is to reference the previous speaker on fast and furious, the eric holder justice department. they claim there is no voter fraud america. the clinical want to poll taxes. eric holder himself said that. they are suing any state that they can sing their voter i.d. lot is unconstitutional even and has been up held by the supreme court. so where are we with the lyrical the justice department? a complete stall. well, this is no accident. the president of the united states got his start with these issues. his first major political challenge chicago for barack obama was with a group called project vote, a voter registration effort that registered 135,000 people and illinois in '91 and '92. project vote was allied with and an affiliate of the acorn. how many of you hav
we passed the civil rights law to prevent that. the second city right not to have your vote canceled up by someone who is an illegal alien, and died, voting twice, or someone who does not even exist. that to file its your sole rights. we can do both. now, an obstacle to this is to reference the previous speaker on fast and furious, the eric holder justice department. they claim there is no voter fraud america. the clinical want to poll taxes. eric holder himself said that. they are suing any...
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it was about human rights. it wasn't even about civil rights. so these conversations in this book were just a starting point. what we're going to do tonight is expand the conversation. you are part of the conversation . so with this book in this project i want you to read it, listen to this cd, 11 hours of audio, and people from history, conversations i had with the people in this book about what you'd add your voice to a two. it's just like how were able to sit and listen to the conversation that someone has the foresight to house so we can be inspired some people look at this moment in history, they can hear from african-american exactly what they do, what we think about the so-called age of obama. so i'm going to tell you exactly how to get involved. i do want to get into conversation tonight. i have to say i'm a little bit sad because this tour is almost over. i've been away from home. me and my roadie, my mom has been all the way through. but each place we visited from los angeles to san francisco to oakland to washington d.c. and even here
it was about human rights. it wasn't even about civil rights. so these conversations in this book were just a starting point. what we're going to do tonight is expand the conversation. you are part of the conversation . so with this book in this project i want you to read it, listen to this cd, 11 hours of audio, and people from history, conversations i had with the people in this book about what you'd add your voice to a two. it's just like how were able to sit and listen to the conversation...
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the civil rights agenda was really forced on them by the civil rights movement, led by martin luther king and many other people who are not in the book. you can read about them there. beginning with the civil rights movement, liberalism transformed itself again and became the manner in which citizens look to their government to give them a fair shake, not just in economic life, but in all forms of life. really every grievance that people had that derives from public life, was put on the burden of government or politicians to try to address it was, as i say in the book, unavoidable for liberals to take on the burden of civil rights in the 1960s. there would have been no point in calling yourself a liberal if you turned your back on that. liberals made a lot of mistakes, many of which were for simple. the biggest mistake was they said to the white working class come up which was their primary constituency, you will pay the price for all of these oppressions that black people live with. and if you object to paying the price, you are a racist. people don't like being called racists. they
the civil rights agenda was really forced on them by the civil rights movement, led by martin luther king and many other people who are not in the book. you can read about them there. beginning with the civil rights movement, liberalism transformed itself again and became the manner in which citizens look to their government to give them a fair shake, not just in economic life, but in all forms of life. really every grievance that people had that derives from public life, was put on the burden...
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in fact the democrats overturned the 1875 civil rights act we may not have needed the 1964 civil rights act. we have a proud history standing up for race relations in this country and it should always be on the tip hartung and spit it out to the peers because they haven't heard it. they are going to pose a public school and get a public-school education where they are conveniently leaving out all these facts where america is looked at as the big bad country and around the world and yet never looked at as america being a beacon of freedom. yes does she have persons but no country has done more for civil rights and freedom in the history of the planet. so don't be afraid to use the information you get here and talk to your peers. how're you going to overcome it? you go ahead and talk to them. >> thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon. i'm the chairman of my high school in ohio and my question for you is the presentation via seen how hollywood has an immense influence over society here in america. although you free field through your presentation many of the celebrities are hypocritical a
in fact the democrats overturned the 1875 civil rights act we may not have needed the 1964 civil rights act. we have a proud history standing up for race relations in this country and it should always be on the tip hartung and spit it out to the peers because they haven't heard it. they are going to pose a public school and get a public-school education where they are conveniently leaving out all these facts where america is looked at as the big bad country and around the world and yet never...
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he and i worked tote at the american civil rights union, but most notely at the family research council and here at liberty university. over the last five years we have collaborated on written works as well as speaking engagements across the country. the blueprint and the second book, resurgence, how constitutional conservativism can save america, are works we enjoyed doing together. >> host: and book tv will also be talking him about the book, resurgent. you can watch that in future weeks on book tv on c-span. ken blackwell, in your book, "the blueprint," you compare presidents bush and obama to pressures hoover and roosevelt. what is that analogy? >> guest: hoover set the table for roosevelt, and i believe that president bush set the table in his last 18 months for this substantial power grab by barack obama. at the end of the day what is fundamentally challenging about the obama administration and their effort to expand the power of the federal government, and the executive branch within the federal government, is that the president has taken what has been a casual tendency by past p
he and i worked tote at the american civil rights union, but most notely at the family research council and here at liberty university. over the last five years we have collaborated on written works as well as speaking engagements across the country. the blueprint and the second book, resurgence, how constitutional conservativism can save america, are works we enjoyed doing together. >> host: and book tv will also be talking him about the book, resurgent. you can watch that in future...
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, and really one of the heroic figures of the post civil-rights and civil rights of black power era. her latest book is morning haiku and she has edited 44 african-american writers on the election of barack obama, 44th president of the united states. [applause] next we have professor cornell west. [applause] with cornell as we all know is another national and international icon and in national treasure in his own right. he is a professor of civil rights activists philosopher, human rights activist who and really one of the boldest public intellectuals that we have in the united states today. he speaks truth to power even when when he speaks is unpopular he has the structure to be critical and against the grain even when it's hurt him and is standing in the black community. so cornell's latest book is the rich and the rest of us and we are proud and happy to have him here today. [applause] next we have fred harris, who is professor of political science at columbia university where he directs the institute for research and african-american studies. [applause] professor harris's latest
, and really one of the heroic figures of the post civil-rights and civil rights of black power era. her latest book is morning haiku and she has edited 44 african-american writers on the election of barack obama, 44th president of the united states. [applause] next we have professor cornell west. [applause] with cornell as we all know is another national and international icon and in national treasure in his own right. he is a professor of civil rights activists philosopher, human rights...
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civil-rights was quite elitist in his hiring policies. and it he had very few black law clerks that is a part of thurgood marshall's history that frank leave has not gotten much attention but that is true. on the question of the senses, there is a lot of different ways that people can identify themselves and i think that is proper. in my writings for instance, i use the term black and african american and afro-american is. i also use the term negro. some people think that is antiquated. i don't thurgood marshall use that term with a capital in in march to me 13 it used the term negro and debbie lee b. dubois use that term of it is good enough for them it is good enough for me. there is a wonderful organization the national association for the advancement of colored people, if colored was that bad of a term i supposeeee
civil-rights was quite elitist in his hiring policies. and it he had very few black law clerks that is a part of thurgood marshall's history that frank leave has not gotten much attention but that is true. on the question of the senses, there is a lot of different ways that people can identify themselves and i think that is proper. in my writings for instance, i use the term black and african american and afro-american is. i also use the term negro. some people think that is antiquated. i don't...
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i think that is important to emphasize the most important victory of the american civil rights movement was making racism discredited, making it class say, something that people were ashamed of, not simply to direct the legal enforcement and that is going to be true in other contexts as well. as the devotee what you are saying is there is an interplay and a cultural context but the right and its assertion shapes that cultural context and we see that playing out right now on the rights not just in this country, but around the world where sometimes the rights of the discourse is ahead and can pull the society along and i think that at least from the perspective of the amnesty international or the human rights advocate, that is an important role of the rights of the discussion is to have that catalytic effect on the cultures and the society that don't feel ready but that need to be jumpstart it and pushed to get to a different place. we are out of time and i want to thank you so much for this discussion. i have learned a great deal and am really pleased to meet you and have a chance to eng
i think that is important to emphasize the most important victory of the american civil rights movement was making racism discredited, making it class say, something that people were ashamed of, not simply to direct the legal enforcement and that is going to be true in other contexts as well. as the devotee what you are saying is there is an interplay and a cultural context but the right and its assertion shapes that cultural context and we see that playing out right now on the rights not just...
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we won the right to vote for african-americans at the end of the civil war, and won is again a hundred years later. we have to do it again. yeah, at the turn of the century, we have to win again at the turn of this century. 70% of the people over 65 who don't have qualified ids in wisconsin under their new id law to stop the fraud to end voters that don't exist, 70 #% of people who got id are women. it's not just a race issue. it's a gender issue. it's a class issue. we don't let them get away with it, okay? now, what do we have at the back of the book? we have something that's very, very important. including this. in the book, it's a smaller version, but download it from our website, ballotbandits.org, seven ways to beat the bandits. i'm not leaving you going, oh, my god. you can take seven steps. get the book, take -- at the back of the book, we call it the ballot condom for safe voting. seven things to do to protect your own vote and those of your loved ones. don't mail in your ballot unless you have to. make sure -- two, vote early. if they call you a felon, see -- the guy who drew
we won the right to vote for african-americans at the end of the civil war, and won is again a hundred years later. we have to do it again. yeah, at the turn of the century, we have to win again at the turn of this century. 70% of the people over 65 who don't have qualified ids in wisconsin under their new id law to stop the fraud to end voters that don't exist, 70 #% of people who got id are women. it's not just a race issue. it's a gender issue. it's a class issue. we don't let them get away...
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i believe did the civil-rights movement. i had a sixth grade teacher who taught us a lot about brown versus board of education, which was before was in sixth grade. he gathers to interviewed jackie robinson, of all people. so they came into town. you can imagine how excited i was. not so much because he was a civil rights leader, and i think some people in retrospect were a little skeptical about him in that regard, but because he was such a darn good baseball player who would be excited? at look at his hands, chest, back. that is the real thing. it -- i was pretty well sensitized, and i believe america achieved something, a permanent lasting change. here it was reversing. very hard for me as an observer to take in the idea that this would be a permanent attitudinal change. in fact, it has been, at least until this time. americans are by and large skeptical of government's. everywhere you look people talk about how we have to restrain government, keeping limited, it taxes down. they don't trust social programs. they just don
i believe did the civil-rights movement. i had a sixth grade teacher who taught us a lot about brown versus board of education, which was before was in sixth grade. he gathers to interviewed jackie robinson, of all people. so they came into town. you can imagine how excited i was. not so much because he was a civil rights leader, and i think some people in retrospect were a little skeptical about him in that regard, but because he was such a darn good baseball player who would be excited? at...
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african-americans had when they went through the civil rights movement the republican party received -- perceives is not pointing these voters to have the right to vote. that is the perception. they need to deal with immigration step by -- back from the idea that we can't win them over so therefore let's make it impossible them to vote. >> and want to come back to the challenges of democrats and let me stick with republicans for a minute. saying that you now among the thinkers of the party the view that the gop has to move on immigration and a more accommodating way is pretty widespread. on the other hand, today you are, the gop is winning a preponderance margin among proportion to the white electorate and they are most uneasy about the demographic change that is underway. over 60% of white seniors come over 60% of blue-collar workers -- white-collar workers voted for romney yesterday. is it possible to move toward a position on immigration that would be more attractive to the hispanic voters without alienating the voters that are already baron who dominate the primaries? >> yes, pos
african-americans had when they went through the civil rights movement the republican party received -- perceives is not pointing these voters to have the right to vote. that is the perception. they need to deal with immigration step by -- back from the idea that we can't win them over so therefore let's make it impossible them to vote. >> and want to come back to the challenges of democrats and let me stick with republicans for a minute. saying that you now among the thinkers of the...
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and so we need we need to have that conversation, the civil right the issues of the 21 tion century of that race and poverty and of course, education is indeed governor romney said the other day, i had to look at my notes to see if i it had right. and the criminal justice system. because in addition to the discrimination that violates the law continuing job discrimination, various ways discrimination in-housing and houses financial and sos on. we have what we know in terms of the structure, the institutional discrimination of how racism, how our schools operate, our criminal justice operates. each of those is a shelf books in of itself. marshall alexander in the new jim ceo has so published by the new press has made so clear how our criminal justice system operates. now, that's the kind of basic set of somethings they talk about in the book. i also talk, and i won't go into it in great length here, but about poverty in relation to place. our inner cities, appalachia, india reservations, mississippi delta, all of that that's where we have the persistent poverty. where we have the interg
and so we need we need to have that conversation, the civil right the issues of the 21 tion century of that race and poverty and of course, education is indeed governor romney said the other day, i had to look at my notes to see if i it had right. and the criminal justice system. because in addition to the discrimination that violates the law continuing job discrimination, various ways discrimination in-housing and houses financial and sos on. we have what we know in terms of the structure, the...
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i don't think we fully appreciate how important that issue is as a civil rights issue to young voters. so when i look at youth turnout and have a margin president obama got with young voters, again a smaller cluster of what they see as civil rights issues making college more affordable may work there. bottom line, it may look to an outsider as if not much has changed. we still have a democratic majority in the senate and the republican majority in the house. the look of the different people who have not been elected to congress. look not just at their faces, but their life experiences and you'll see a change to truly reflect the changes in america. and the senate, we have four new women senators. we're fixing comments, all of whom got elected. with five challengers are five new candidates. for the the five were reelected. in fact, if i step back and look at the election year as a whole, 33 senate seats up for election. one of three who are democrat nominees were women. this is an historic marker for our party. as you can see, voters liked it, too. for a democratic women. on the republ
i don't think we fully appreciate how important that issue is as a civil rights issue to young voters. so when i look at youth turnout and have a margin president obama got with young voters, again a smaller cluster of what they see as civil rights issues making college more affordable may work there. bottom line, it may look to an outsider as if not much has changed. we still have a democratic majority in the senate and the republican majority in the house. the look of the different people who...
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, it wasn't even about civil rights. so these conversations was just the starting point to what will do tonight is to expand the conversation. you are a part of that conversation. here's the book, read, and you put down. know, with this book and with this project we want you to read it, we want you to listen to this cd, 11 hours of audio of people from history, of conversations i had with the people in this book. and we want you to add your voice to it too. because just like how we're able to sit and listen to the conversation, so has the foresight to have with fannie lou hamer, so that we can be inspired by that today, we want that when people look back on his voting history, that they can hear from african-americans exactly what they think, what we think about this age of obama. solo but later on i'm going to take exactly how you can get involved in that. but i do want to get into a conversation tonight. i have to say, i'm a little bit sad because the tour is almost over. i've been away from home, me and my roadie, my
, it wasn't even about civil rights. so these conversations was just the starting point to what will do tonight is to expand the conversation. you are a part of that conversation. here's the book, read, and you put down. know, with this book and with this project we want you to read it, we want you to listen to this cd, 11 hours of audio of people from history, of conversations i had with the people in this book. and we want you to add your voice to it too. because just like how we're able to...
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the columbia professor says bronco's ascension to the president sit undermindded the civil right movement to race neutral politics. >> host: from the very beginning, tell me in a nutshell, what is this book about. >> guest: the book is about many things but primarily what it's about is an examination of black politics in the age of obama, and one of the curiosities that really motivated me to write this book is actually a piece that was written in "the new york times" magazine. during the summer of 2008. and the title of the article was "the end of black politics." and it provided a generation explanation why you see this crop of black politicians who are running a diffuse campaign, and so i think i wanted to have my say as one who had been writing about this for decades. and this book, it's providing historical context the rise of barack obama, and looking at the various campaign strategies that racially neutral black politics -- black politicians have been using, and talk about the consequences of those strategies for present-day black politics. >> host: you would say it's more than abo
the columbia professor says bronco's ascension to the president sit undermindded the civil right movement to race neutral politics. >> host: from the very beginning, tell me in a nutshell, what is this book about. >> guest: the book is about many things but primarily what it's about is an examination of black politics in the age of obama, and one of the curiosities that really motivated me to write this book is actually a piece that was written in "the new york times"...
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you know, the president wanted to change the civil rights laws. i mean, i guess maybe the fight against the end of the vietnam war may be started it, on the outside, from the bottom and work and eventually it toppled the president. but most of the major debates, the new deal, the reagan revolution, whatever time, i mean, even going back to lincoln stein. i mean, it wasn't, you know, there were great debates in the congress but ultimately the president had to act. and i think that's what's just been absent here, where are the proposals. and will become -- i think that the debates have been, i don't mean since the denver debate or tonight's debate, but i think the debate in the campaign, in the political arena this year have been moving us closer. .. >> and rejoin us, please, here in a moment for our final two panels. um, i also want to just encourage you to visit nationaljournal.com/events for video of this event and the event we did in april. and then also to join us on november 7th for our day after the election event in which we will be talking
you know, the president wanted to change the civil rights laws. i mean, i guess maybe the fight against the end of the vietnam war may be started it, on the outside, from the bottom and work and eventually it toppled the president. but most of the major debates, the new deal, the reagan revolution, whatever time, i mean, even going back to lincoln stein. i mean, it wasn't, you know, there were great debates in the congress but ultimately the president had to act. and i think that's what's just...
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rights black history, it gave us experienced the they kind of new how things were. they learned from the failure of that experience. but also i think as a shirley chisolm set herself in her memoir that she wrote that was published a year later, is that she was the first. that only the first african-american, the first woman, it's a discipline in many ways that in 2008 when we had for the first time a viable woman running for president, and a viable african-american running for president, shirley chisolm was hardly mentioned by the media, the candidates themselves, but despite that she was the first. she took the sexism again after her. she, like barack obama and jesse jackson, i didn't talk about this in the book but she talked about in her memoir, her life was threatened because he was running. in fact, wallace was shot. and she came, she got criticism. she came to decide to offer comfort, even though ideologically they were on opposite ends. and so i think, you know, they're always tends to be the first. there were people who were tempted before jackie robinson wa
rights black history, it gave us experienced the they kind of new how things were. they learned from the failure of that experience. but also i think as a shirley chisolm set herself in her memoir that she wrote that was published a year later, is that she was the first. that only the first african-american, the first woman, it's a discipline in many ways that in 2008 when we had for the first time a viable woman running for president, and a viable african-american running for president,...
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in civil rights for quite a long time. a little background in the 1980s finance online school, there was a quite heated debate between legal scholars on the left about the question of rights. and i was just a student at that time, they found it to be very interesting debate between a group that has come to be known critically of legal studies and another group being the scholars of color that later became known as critical race theory and about the status of rights and legal discourse when rights are a good idea and whether they were. the critical position was one that became known as the number of criticisms in a number of concerns about the search of rights, most witches had to do with the worries about the way they shape political consciousness and the way they affect it political movements. and the response from people that became know as critical race theorists became quite powerful. it's defending rights in particular was civil rights for dispossessed were subordinated groups and very, very strong terms. i found that
in civil rights for quite a long time. a little background in the 1980s finance online school, there was a quite heated debate between legal scholars on the left about the question of rights. and i was just a student at that time, they found it to be very interesting debate between a group that has come to be known critically of legal studies and another group being the scholars of color that later became known as critical race theory and about the status of rights and legal discourse when...
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was wrong on the civil rights that. i don't get that much grief from the right for saying it. budget but you can't on one hand claim credit for women's suffrage and for and for civil rights and all these things and at the same time complain about how conservatives are the aggressors and the culture war. the forces of change, the forces of progress, the people who want to move forward as barack obama likes to say, these are the people who are trying to impose their ideas on society and the reaction you get from the right, from the evangelical christians or from people who want to keep the cmi all mail or whatever it is, these are the victims of the speak and the culture war. doesn't mean they're always right but the idea that somehow trying to defend the definition of marriage has been around for 1000 years is somehow an imposition strikes me as ludicrous and the other side tries to impose it. and get the way the press covers it in the way people talk about it, the way the left certainly talks about it, it is always abou
was wrong on the civil rights that. i don't get that much grief from the right for saying it. budget but you can't on one hand claim credit for women's suffrage and for and for civil rights and all these things and at the same time complain about how conservatives are the aggressors and the culture war. the forces of change, the forces of progress, the people who want to move forward as barack obama likes to say, these are the people who are trying to impose their ideas on society and the...
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through the 1960's we finally decided it was time to address black civil-rights. intellectuals have been arguing about this for a long time. then it became a matter of what was the best way to do it. decided by the court that it would be through school. integrating schools. now, if in this refugee intellectual made an argument at the time in the small publication that this was a big mistake to put it on the backs of schoolchildren. it should be done through marriage. at that time and at least 20 states you couldn't get married -- of black person could not get married to a white person. throughout the movie -- the book, culture, not just a moment, coming to dinner with katharine hepburn. the story of the movie, a white woman marrying a black man played by sydney porter, interracial marriage was illegal in 17 states while the movie was being made. so i think that there was a point that integration didn't go very well. high schools are still not very well integrated, and there is an incredible amount of violence and resistance. people have voluntarily get married, bl
through the 1960's we finally decided it was time to address black civil-rights. intellectuals have been arguing about this for a long time. then it became a matter of what was the best way to do it. decided by the court that it would be through school. integrating schools. now, if in this refugee intellectual made an argument at the time in the small publication that this was a big mistake to put it on the backs of schoolchildren. it should be done through marriage. at that time and at least...
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obama's suffered on the civil-rights movement and of the new left. he determined to experience them vicariously. he tried drugs as he confessed and hence autobiography, "dreams from my father." rallied against south africa , political speeches, community organizers, tried to get in touch with the black experience a and in general search for meaning to use a formulation he could not to reject. he shared the 60s existentialist mood everyone must find his own meaning in life and find his own way. there is no meeting out there zero or objective source that one can point* to zero or rely on. he shared the determination to make history rather than and let it happen or to redeem in justice. roswell obama share the post modernist suspicion of the universal values are not universal and probably not true. one can see these ideas that work in "dreams from my father" the highly fictionalized memoir. politicians notoriously live. not a surprise. no future president ever boasted he was making stuff up to tell the story he -- the way he wanted to tell it. self crea
obama's suffered on the civil-rights movement and of the new left. he determined to experience them vicariously. he tried drugs as he confessed and hence autobiography, "dreams from my father." rallied against south africa , political speeches, community organizers, tried to get in touch with the black experience a and in general search for meaning to use a formulation he could not to reject. he shared the 60s existentialist mood everyone must find his own meaning in life and find his...
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rights movement for civil rights causes until the case came along. tyrone garnered wide in 2006 about a year after i interviewed him and john lawrence died last november in 2011 about six months after my second interview which he told me the full story on what happened from his perspective. >> so he wanted to set the record straight about what actually happened. it's true he never said they never got to tell his story at the time the case was coming along. i take it though he also was proud of the case and what had accomplished. >> guest: both men were proud of the case and what it had accomplished. they felt they had done good for other people a would be part of their own legacy and they thought it was important that the state never be the will to come in and arrest people claiming they had sex and make that enough as the basis for an arrest. >> host: you've done a fine job, thank you. >> guest: nooney. it's nice to talk to you. >>> two things, one is this is such a complicated conflict that we've ever, ever fought a war like this before. the second
rights movement for civil rights causes until the case came along. tyrone garnered wide in 2006 about a year after i interviewed him and john lawrence died last november in 2011 about six months after my second interview which he told me the full story on what happened from his perspective. >> so he wanted to set the record straight about what actually happened. it's true he never said they never got to tell his story at the time the case was coming along. i take it though he also was...
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but clearly i think civil rights is as vietnam received in the memory the legacy of civil rights is clear every more present in a daily lives and i think will lead to his not only reassessment but indication. there's one conner conversation that's in the book where he's given the johnson treatment in person to george wails alabama governor. it's a remarkable -- at the pivot toll moment in history. i don't know if you care to read it to the audience. it's on the left-hand side there. >> guest: i'll be happy to do this. >> start here. >> guest: sure. let me set the stage. wallace reads the notion of sending federal troops into alabama when the the voting rights issue was at play. and alabama was almost at the boiling point. and so wallace is call to the white house. and like jfk, lbj had a rocking chair in his oval office. he was six feet three inches tall and he would frequently have where john is sitting on a couch that is for a lower than the rocking chair. and johnson would rock the chair up and literally lean over them and look down at them. and now bear in mind, as i mentioned, lbj is
but clearly i think civil rights is as vietnam received in the memory the legacy of civil rights is clear every more present in a daily lives and i think will lead to his not only reassessment but indication. there's one conner conversation that's in the book where he's given the johnson treatment in person to george wails alabama governor. it's a remarkable -- at the pivot toll moment in history. i don't know if you care to read it to the audience. it's on the left-hand side there. >>...
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it really is a civil rights matter. the truth is that it is a civil rights issue your story of how this happens and being forced into risky proactivity, in terms of the kind of candidate that we are voting on, keep thinking about what i said before about how the democrats are in this full throated defense of women's rights and it turned out to be really effective for them. i also think about the 2008 race. to give this incredibly moving and full throated voice to this issue that everyone had been scared to make too much of the fact that he was black. later, hillary clinton, who had not been very good about talking about the history, and i think one of the lessons that perhaps the progressives could take from a lot of these stories is that in the years that kinds of people have begun to be included, we have been very shy about making our voices on these matters heard. hopefully we'll no one notice that we are just part of it. in fact, when it comes to women candidates, they have always been encouraged to respond to a sex
it really is a civil rights matter. the truth is that it is a civil rights issue your story of how this happens and being forced into risky proactivity, in terms of the kind of candidate that we are voting on, keep thinking about what i said before about how the democrats are in this full throated defense of women's rights and it turned out to be really effective for them. i also think about the 2008 race. to give this incredibly moving and full throated voice to this issue that everyone had...
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those are two civil rights. they both have to be protected. as i say in the book, minority voters, urban political machines and no one will save both of them. these machines have perpetuated themselves in prison cases to voter fraud in the past and people who are hurt minority communities have to put up with bad public schools, bad roads and services. >> yes, okay. so this is essential to your thesis, but you glancingly talk about the electoral college and you of course strongly oppose getting rid of the electoral college. i think there are -- that also has become a bit of a partisan issue i think because i think democrats feel populous states and to be democratic, why don't we have majority elections. you of course say that would minimize the impact of smaller states. so you know, we're not going to get rid of the electoral college because three quarters of the states have to approve them in small states never would. but why do you think a majority just in principle an election decided by the majority is wrong? >> well, i don't did is wrong,
those are two civil rights. they both have to be protected. as i say in the book, minority voters, urban political machines and no one will save both of them. these machines have perpetuated themselves in prison cases to voter fraud in the past and people who are hurt minority communities have to put up with bad public schools, bad roads and services. >> yes, okay. so this is essential to your thesis, but you glancingly talk about the electoral college and you of course strongly oppose...
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there's a whole history whether it's civil rights, workers rights, or women's rights where people remember why unioners created. most of the world has no rex why it happened. you had to work 18 hours and never got overtime. you got paid a number you live in a town which you work. people don't understand where the value base came from. there is going to be an evolution or innovation in the movement. i see union doing all kinds of interesting thing. don't corporate affairs work they follow pension resources and they take their own money and create economic development. that's smart. looking how do i get economic activity get my folks. ensure my rate of return. do something to get the economy to move again. i think there's a lot of compelling unions that are think abouting it circhtly. to underestimate the kind of [inaudible] >> i would say one thing to watch political any in the jersey we come from a unionized state than a lot of states in the south. the union have different power and i think one of the things that is important to watch you saw it in wisconsin and you see in other places it'
there's a whole history whether it's civil rights, workers rights, or women's rights where people remember why unioners created. most of the world has no rex why it happened. you had to work 18 hours and never got overtime. you got paid a number you live in a town which you work. people don't understand where the value base came from. there is going to be an evolution or innovation in the movement. i see union doing all kinds of interesting thing. don't corporate affairs work they follow...
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in a situation of a civil war? >> it's not just accepting frederick it is essentially a position of the international world. helsinki accords to the u.n., but this isn't achievable in every country that we would like it to be right now. there are a lot of countries where you don't have those kinds of rights that we have good solid relations with china, like you mention, the largest in the world. so it is an aspiration and it is an aspiration that increasingly over time and over the last few years has become a reality. in sony parts of the world. so we keep pushing the aspiration forward, keep hoping that country after country when a group of people after another, will learn to live in peace, learn to build a representative form of government. i would like these representative forms of government, when you said democracy they just think american, jeffersonian model, lots of models. but it's an aspiration for all of us that the people should have a right for self-determination. it's well documented and international
in a situation of a civil war? >> it's not just accepting frederick it is essentially a position of the international world. helsinki accords to the u.n., but this isn't achievable in every country that we would like it to be right now. there are a lot of countries where you don't have those kinds of rights that we have good solid relations with china, like you mention, the largest in the world. so it is an aspiration and it is an aspiration that increasingly over time and over the last...
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what can we do ourselves as a group to assure our civil rights? >> host: we're going to have to leave it there, sandra. >> guest: i think that the president on an ongoing basis is, um, meeting with various sectors of the black community. i think it's a mistake to think that he is, you know, indifferent to the black community. i think he is very aware of various problems the black community faces and that, in fact, he's doing what he thinks he can to help black americans along with other americans. do i agree with all of what the president says? no. and in my book i'm critical of him in certain ways. but by and large i think the president of the united states is doing what he can to advance the interests of all americans. >> host: and that'll have to be the last word. our guest has been harvard professor and author randall kennedy. "race, crime and the law," "the n-word," "interracial
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what can we do ourselves as a group to assure our civil rights? >> host: we're going to have to leave it there, sandra. >> guest: i think that the president on an ongoing basis is, um, meeting with various sectors of the black community. i think it's a mistake to think that he is, you know, indifferent to the black community. i think he is very aware of various problems the black community faces and that, in fact, he's doing what he thinks he can to help black americans along with other americans. do i agree with all of what the president says? no. and in my book i'm critical of him in certain
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american event which had portraits of the candidates to sort of recall scenes from things like the civil rights movement so they wanted to sort of creative vision of the impression that obama was the historical figure in some way and they tried to do this through the design and they did a whole bunch of other stuff. they to get created a status that would using official looking documents. they created a supporter seen that different groups would see their own identity sort of representatives the campaign using a rainbow flag for gay and lesbian etc so the idea is that through design you could sort of construct the image of the candidate and the campaign itself. mao design went hand in hand with tools and this is a screen shot from the support of my barack obama.com. the important thing is that the campaign really wanted to see the supporters interested in the obama candidacy doing that work on the gloves and they did a whole bunch of stuff and you see again this is a later version of the original campaign tools. you can see the capacity to create even and the capacity to fund raise for t
american event which had portraits of the candidates to sort of recall scenes from things like the civil rights movement so they wanted to sort of creative vision of the impression that obama was the historical figure in some way and they tried to do this through the design and they did a whole bunch of other stuff. they to get created a status that would using official looking documents. they created a supporter seen that different groups would see their own identity sort of representatives...
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after that congressman john lewis on the civil-rights activist work in the 1960s and later congressional scholar thomas mann and norman ornsetein in their partnership in congress. >> author edward klein joined booktv at freedom fest to talk about his new york times best selling book "the amateur". he looks critically at president obama before and after he reached the white house. here is what he had to say. >> the book currently on your screen has spent several weeks on the new york times best-seller list, many weeks at number one. "the amateur" has been written by edward klein who is our guest, booktv on c-span2. where did you get a title for this book? >> guest: it came from a meeting bill clinton had in chapel:00, new york, north of new york city where he has a home. this was back in august of 2011. his wife, his daughter and a bunch of friends to meet with him because he had news. he had done a secret poll in 2011 and polls showed if hillary clinton would challenge barack obama for the democratic presidential nomination in 2012, he thought she could win. she was surprised by all this
after that congressman john lewis on the civil-rights activist work in the 1960s and later congressional scholar thomas mann and norman ornsetein in their partnership in congress. >> author edward klein joined booktv at freedom fest to talk about his new york times best selling book "the amateur". he looks critically at president obama before and after he reached the white house. here is what he had to say. >> the book currently on your screen has spent several weeks on...
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and that's part of what led me directly into the kmuncht organizing work that i did, the civil rights work that i did, and ultimately into the politics that i'm still engaged in. and so in some ways, the themes of this book are very much the project of my life right now. which is to figure out how in fact can we live together as one people effectively, and what does that mean and what does that require, and what are the nature of our commitments to each other and what's the scope of our regard and concern. and that's not an easy question for us to answer. we just went through an election in which i think both sides simplified the nature of the problem and didn't necessarily offer a very good solution. you know, our politics so often functions as one side painting a character couture of the other side. the republicans happen to be better at characterizing democrats than the other way around. but part of what i meant when in my speech i said there are no red states and no blue states was the fact that the complexity of our lives is not fully captured in our political debate, that there
and that's part of what led me directly into the kmuncht organizing work that i did, the civil rights work that i did, and ultimately into the politics that i'm still engaged in. and so in some ways, the themes of this book are very much the project of my life right now. which is to figure out how in fact can we live together as one people effectively, and what does that mean and what does that require, and what are the nature of our commitments to each other and what's the scope of our regard...
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we are working with a broad coalition of civil rights leaders to assure americans with disabilities continue to have a right to vote. i want to reiterate that point of dr. williams because it is so important not just for african-americans that people with disabilities in so many other constituencies in this country. the other thing that is interesting when you talk about the sort of silent war against people with disabilities, 85% of students with disabilities report incidents of being bullied. much higher than the incidents for other traditionally thought of groups when it comes to bouillon. one of the things we're doing every day is working to eradicate that. we are partnering right now with nascar with huge anti bullying campaign at the brickyard 400 right now. we need to change so that all students regardless whether or not they have a disability can learn in a place where the first thing they need to think about is their education and not survival. turning to the platform one of the things that is so important for americans with disabilities is employment opportunity. so last december p
we are working with a broad coalition of civil rights leaders to assure americans with disabilities continue to have a right to vote. i want to reiterate that point of dr. williams because it is so important not just for african-americans that people with disabilities in so many other constituencies in this country. the other thing that is interesting when you talk about the sort of silent war against people with disabilities, 85% of students with disabilities report incidents of being bullied....
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the civil rights movement is not a reaction. it's a decision is taken at a moment in time to say this regime is intolerable, and it begins of course of action. >> host: isn't everything derivative when you were looking at politics? >> guest: sure. to that extent absolutely but derivative is not the same as reactive. there is a big difference. absolutely no -- they say this is your one. but of course they are borrowing when they do this on the 100 years of the different ideas. that notion that the time it begins now is actually a very critical link to the left imaginary. it's not as critical. it's not as critical to the right imaginary. >> host: do you say that iraqi mentally or matter of fact as a conservative but also say yes, we are reacting to project begun by people we disagree with. is that what you are asserting or pointing out? >> guest: with the left does not say we are reactive to projects that have begun we are -- >> host: we are a new. we are creating and the conservatives respond. >> guest: yes. >> host: i want to ta
the civil rights movement is not a reaction. it's a decision is taken at a moment in time to say this regime is intolerable, and it begins of course of action. >> host: isn't everything derivative when you were looking at politics? >> guest: sure. to that extent absolutely but derivative is not the same as reactive. there is a big difference. absolutely no -- they say this is your one. but of course they are borrowing when they do this on the 100 years of the different ideas. that...
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kazin when you think about the civil rights, labor movement, women's rights movement, are those all anti-war rock movement, are the causes of the left? i wouldn't argue that only radicals' involved in the movement, i mean today for example ron paul is antiwar. rahm polis no leftist. estimate of course. but there are people who may argue it's against americans going to war in different times, arguments for women's rights who are not on the left but i think the left-wing movements and organizers, people that want to make america a more egalitarian society those are the ones that pushed the causes for word and cause prominent trouble if you will and that's why i think they should get most of the credit for whatever success this causes or is achieved via >> huebner secure bouck donley era's and in the most it is rebels without a movement. what do you mean by that? >> there's a lot of radicals around, people like michael more, noam chomsky, the late howard is then sold to many copies of the book. but i think with all due credit to occupy wall street which is sustainable and people have leaders an
kazin when you think about the civil rights, labor movement, women's rights movement, are those all anti-war rock movement, are the causes of the left? i wouldn't argue that only radicals' involved in the movement, i mean today for example ron paul is antiwar. rahm polis no leftist. estimate of course. but there are people who may argue it's against americans going to war in different times, arguments for women's rights who are not on the left but i think the left-wing movements and organizers,...
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and civil rights and all these things and at the same time complain about how cult conservatives are the aggressors in the culture war. the self-anointed forces of change, the forces of progress, the people who want to move forward as barack obama likes to say, these are the people who are trying to impose their ideas on society. and the reaction you get from the right, from the evangelical christians or from people who want to keep vmi all male or whatever it is, these are the victims, so to speak, in the culture wars. doesn't mean they're always right. but the idea that somehow trying to defend the definition of marriage that's been around for a thousand years is somehow an imposition strikes me as ludicrous. the other side is trying to impose things, and yet the way the press covers it, the way people talk about it, the way the left certainly talks about it, it is always about how the right wants to control how people live on the left. when in reality it is the left that is initiating these things, that is pushing these arguments, that is trying to change the country. you know, ba
and civil rights and all these things and at the same time complain about how cult conservatives are the aggressors in the culture war. the self-anointed forces of change, the forces of progress, the people who want to move forward as barack obama likes to say, these are the people who are trying to impose their ideas on society. and the reaction you get from the right, from the evangelical christians or from people who want to keep vmi all male or whatever it is, these are the victims, so to...
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what can we do ourselves as a group to assure our civil rights? >> host: we're going to have to leave it there, sandra. >> guest: i think that the president on an ongoing basis is, um, meeting with various sectors of the black community. i think it's a mistake to think that he is, you know, indifferent to the black community. i think he is very aware of various problems the black community faces and that, in fact, he's doing what he thinks he can to help black americans along with other americans. do i agree with all of what the president says? no. and in my book i'm critical of him in certain ways. but by and large i think the president of the united states is doing what he can to advance the interests of all americans. >> host: and that'll have to be the last word. our guest has been harvard professor and author randall kennedy. "race, crime and the law," "the n-word," "interracial intimacies," "sellout" and "the persistence of the color line" is his thinkest book. and another new book coming out on affirmative action in early 2013. professor ke
what can we do ourselves as a group to assure our civil rights? >> host: we're going to have to leave it there, sandra. >> guest: i think that the president on an ongoing basis is, um, meeting with various sectors of the black community. i think it's a mistake to think that he is, you know, indifferent to the black community. i think he is very aware of various problems the black community faces and that, in fact, he's doing what he thinks he can to help black americans along with...
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as a similarble it's white flag toes the civil right movement. aslishsha thomas arrived near 1981. friends had come the year before what is she encountered wasn't a u surprise. hunldzed around the bus stop campfire the stench of the smoke would stink up your clothes. you would hear what is that smell. thinging niggers stink. they had the classes in the corner of the calf tiara. still seg -- white teachers didn't treat her fairly. my third grade teacher was mean. i had to say, i can read. i can write. one day she told me to get out of the class and go to the learning lab. i egg ignored her and read my book. it was the same when he went out for the volleyball team in middle school. the bus kids had to leave at 3:30. we didn't try out she said. i didn't know they could tell us not to try out. my parents had a car. they could have driven us back after school. the coaches told us no. so went her time there. still kind of separate not exactly equal. he looks back without regret. i don't feel like i got as much from the system as the other kids. i don't. we didn't have anybody fighting fo
as a similarble it's white flag toes the civil right movement. aslishsha thomas arrived near 1981. friends had come the year before what is she encountered wasn't a u surprise. hunldzed around the bus stop campfire the stench of the smoke would stink up your clothes. you would hear what is that smell. thinging niggers stink. they had the classes in the corner of the calf tiara. still seg -- white teachers didn't treat her fairly. my third grade teacher was mean. i had to say, i can read. i can...
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rights in the 1960s. now, obama changed this coalition, but not necessarily for the better. take a look at the maps. now, what i've done here is taken, basically, every -- a state that was basically tied in 1996 or 2008 is white. and as it becomes, as a republican gets a point, it becomes a little bit redder. in other words, like georgia in 2008 which was barely won by mccain is light red, and as mccain does a little bit better, it gets darker and darker, and the same is true of the democrats. you'll notice that the blue states in 2008 look a lot like the blue states in 1996. why is this? because from 1996 to 2008 only three states moved more than five points towards the democrats. vermont, nevada and barack obama's home state of hawaii. where's the change? the change is right in the middle of the map. the states that i was talking about with the jacksonians. west virginia, kentucky, tennessee, arkansas, oklahoma and then the changes in alabama and louisiana actually come mostly in the northern tier of th
rights in the 1960s. now, obama changed this coalition, but not necessarily for the better. take a look at the maps. now, what i've done here is taken, basically, every -- a state that was basically tied in 1996 or 2008 is white. and as it becomes, as a republican gets a point, it becomes a little bit redder. in other words, like georgia in 2008 which was barely won by mccain is light red, and as mccain does a little bit better, it gets darker and darker, and the same is true of the democrats....
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a centralist and he believed he was very loyal to lyndon johnson and credited him with passing the civil-rights bill and to sort of leave the other democrats and why the needed passage and why it was important. >> and he drew about desegregation. we of james meredith that was the first african-american to be admitted into the university of mississippi and the governor at the time who tried to block him and even a retired general tried to block him and sam is kind of shown as protecting him and leading him into old myths and he gave them a misbehaving spank for not allowing him to go to the university. >> the political cartoons also depend on a lot of common imagery. the symbols we see every day. this cartoon is by a cartoonist at the miami daily news from 1933 to 1956. during that time, she was the only female editorial cartoonist in the country. in this one she's using the familiar imagery of the bronchi as the democrats' party, the elephant as the republican party coming in here it was drawn in the 50's where the candidate analyst stevenson and truman. they're kind of by their candidacy. they
a centralist and he believed he was very loyal to lyndon johnson and credited him with passing the civil-rights bill and to sort of leave the other democrats and why the needed passage and why it was important. >> and he drew about desegregation. we of james meredith that was the first african-american to be admitted into the university of mississippi and the governor at the time who tried to block him and even a retired general tried to block him and sam is kind of shown as protecting...
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occurred in the civil rights movement. and one of those occurred in my hometown of marion, alabama. pretty dramatic. >> host: now, where do you live now, first of all? >> guest: i live in tuscaloosa, alabama, which is 60 miles up the road but almost in another, more recent century than my small hometown. >> host: and darkroom is a lot about the civil rights movement and some of the experiences that you had. i want to start with your father. what did he do for a living, and what was his experience like? >> guest: my father was a teacher. he had a background also in the ministry. but, um, he was an amateur photographer. he did some freelance work, and that figures centrally in my book, "darkroom." >> host: and i want to ask about his ministering, because he'd been assigned to some churches, and you write about b that in here. what was his experience? >> guest: well, this was, actually, my family's first immigration period. in 1948 my father came to the u.s., and he studied at a seminary in new orleans, and he went around and
occurred in the civil rights movement. and one of those occurred in my hometown of marion, alabama. pretty dramatic. >> host: now, where do you live now, first of all? >> guest: i live in tuscaloosa, alabama, which is 60 miles up the road but almost in another, more recent century than my small hometown. >> host: and darkroom is a lot about the civil rights movement and some of the experiences that you had. i want to start with your father. what did he do for a living, and...